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| Shannon Watkins |
Nike’s Jordan Brand hires Aflac chief brand and marketing officer Shannon Watkins as global CMO. At Aflac, Watkins helped develop the company’s partnership with ESPN’s “College GameDay,” with a focus on historically Black colleges and universities. Before joining Aflac in 2018, she held several senior marketing positions at the Coca-Cola Company, PepsiAmericas and ConAgra. “We need innovative leadership, someone who can lead us into the future by pushing creativity, championing diversity, and bringing our purpose to life,” Jordan Brand president Craig Williams told Sportico. “Shannon’s experience across multiple industries and business sectors will do just that.”
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| Brittany Richter |
NP Digital brings on Brittany Richter as COO. Richter most recently served as chief of business strategy and transformation at Dentsu Media. She was previously chief solutions officer at iProspect, which is part of Dentsu. In her new position, Richter will lead operations for NP Digital across all facets of product and service offerings, as well as employee management. “Brittany is passionate and skilled redefining operations talent and deriving value beyond cost,” said NP Digital chief executive officer Mike Gullaksen.
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| Jorge Narvaez-Aranjo |
George P. Johnson promotes Jorge Narvaez-Arango to SVP head of creative, EMEA. He was previously VP, executive creative director in GPJ's New York and San Francisco offices, leading the IBM and Salesforce creative teams. As SVP, Narvaez-Arango will be tasked with setting the agency’s creative vision and delivery. “Jorge has long been a creative visionary on some of the world’s most high-profile brand events and we look forward to his leadership of what is already an impressive and seasoned design team," said GPJ chief executive officer Chris Meyer.
Seven Letter hires Allie Raffa, who was most recently White House correspondent for NBC News, as a senior director... Points of Light, an organization founded by President George H.W. Bush that is dedicated to volunteer service, names Jeff Zanelli as CMO... Frontieras North America, an energy and environmental technology company, appoints Nora Shepard as VP of communications.
Alcoa has named Emily Olson, who has more than 20 years of experience working in capital-intensive industries in the Americas, Europe and Asia, EVP & chief external affairs officer, effective April 6.
Longacre Square Partners has named Humza Vanderman partner and head of its London outpost as the financial communications firm expands into Europe.
FGS Global adds former Pfizer EVP and chief corporate affairs officer Sally Susman to its global executive board as an independent member, effective April 1... Codeword brings on Kim Baffi, who was previously Salesforce VP and creative director, as executive creative director... Amperity, an AI-powered customer data cloud, appoints Bridget Perry as CMO.
MOIA America, a Volkswagen Group of America subsidiary that develops and tests autonomous, all-electric ride-pooling vehicles, names Marcus Gamo head of U.S. communications... Continental Strategy brings on Francisco Petrirena as VP in its Miami office. Petrirena was previously chief of staff to former Miami city manager Art Noriega... MSQ Sport + Entertainment brings on Lauren Weil as EVP, Max Hirsch as VP of sponsorship, and Brooke Losee as VP.
